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Introduction to the Hakluyt Society

The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 and has published more than 340 primary accounts of historical travel and exploration. Each year, the Society distributes the volumes published in that year to its members. These books represent excellent value for money and are unusually good reads,

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Blog Archive

2025 (7)

December (1)

Welcome to our redesigned Hakluyt Society blog

November (1)

Taking Newton On Tour. The Grand Tour Travel Diary Of Martin Folkes (1690–1754)

August (3)

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize competition for 2026
The Hakluyt Society is seeking series editors
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May (2)

Winner of the Hakluyt Society Essay Competition 2025
A Scientific Voyage in the Southern Hemisphere and Around the World

2024 (3)

August (1)

Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop

May (2)

Nelson’s Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power
Winner of the Hakluyt Society Essay Competition 2024

2023 (3)

September (1)

New Edition: John Martin’s “An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands”

July (1)

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize – Judging Procedures for the 2024 Competition

February (1)

Lecture: Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery

2022 (7)

June (1)

Review: The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson

May (2)

Review: The Javanese Travels of Purwalelana
English Travellers to Venice by Michael G. Brennan

April (1)

The Archive of the Hakluyt Society at the British Library

March (3)

Decolonising Travel Studies: Rethinking the Study of Travel Writing about Africa
Freshest advices from Barbary
Book launch “Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World”

2021 (5)

September (1)

Programme: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches

June (1)

Hakluyt Society Videos – Annual Lectures and Conference Presentations

May (1)

In memoriam: Will Ryan and The Hakluyt Society

March (1)

Surprises of Travel through Java in the Nineteenth Century

February (1)

The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson

2020 (6)

October (1)

‘New Caledonia’ and mythmaking in the Darien Scheme

August (1)

In memoriam: Professor Roy Bridges

May (1)

Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries

February (1)

Encounters with the Querina

January (2)

Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop, 2020, London
Captain Cook Conference in Paris on 7th-8th February 2020

2019 (7)

November (1)

Cosmopolitan Convicts? 19th-century convicts in Bermuda and Gibraltar

October (1)

Music-making, Hakluyt and Early Modern Travel Knowledge

August (1)

Gift-giving in early modern European encounters with Southeast Asia

June (2)

Programme: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019 – Rethinking Maritime Encounters
Oxford, Richard Hakluyt and the Hakluyt Society

March (1)

Coming from afar

February (1)

A 19th-Century Perspective on Ireland – following in the footsteps of John (Fiott) Lee

2018 (8)

November (1)

The voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty’s Ship Sweepstakes 1669-1671

June (2)

Messy Lives on the Upper Guinea Coast: The Church Missionary Society and its Representatives
Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop: A Report by Captain Mike Barritt

May (3)

Grant, the Nile Expedition and Colonisation
‘A Walk Across Africa’: The Nile Source Problem
Introducing the Hakluyt Society Edition of Grant’s Walk across Africa

April (1)

Hakluyt & Oxford: Essays and Exhibitions Marking the Quatercentenary of the Death of Richard Hakluyt in 1616, edited by Anthony Payne

March (1)

Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop, London, Friday 4 May 2018

2017 (10)

November (1)

In memoriam: Dr Ian Jackson (1935-2017)

October (1)

Looking back on the symposium “Trading Companies and Travel Literature”

August (1)

Programme: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017 – Trading Companies and Travel Literature

July (1)

Navigation: An Even Shorter Introduction by Jim Bennet

June (2)

‘World enough, and time’: Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World
2017 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize winner: Neither “Middle Ground” nor “Native Ground”: Reading the Life of Goggey, an Aboriginal Man on the Fringes of Early Colonial Sydney

March (2)

The Armada of the Strait: James P.R. Lyell and the Relación of Pedro de Rada
The Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584: Disastrous beginnings of an ill-fated enterprise

February (1)

Personal conflict in the Armada of the Strait: Sarmiento versus Flores

January (1)

2016 Hakluyt Society Volume: The Struggle for the South Atlantic: The Armada of the Strait, 1581-84

2016 (13)

December (1)

Looking back on Hakluyt@400

November (1)

‘Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World’ – Conference Programme

October (1)

Richard Hakluyt, Jacques le Moyne, and Theodore de Bry’s 1591 Engravings of Florida Timucua Indians (Part 2): The Florida Book

September (2)

Theodore de Bry, Richard Hakluyt, and the Business of Books (Part 1): De Bry’s 1591 Engravings of Florida Timucua Indians
Abraham Lawse (c.1559-1613) – Case Study of a Tudor-Stuart Shipmaster

August (1)

Hakluyt@400 Quatercentenary Programme Autumn 2016

July (2)

How to read Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598-1600)?
Author’s View: The ‘Joys’ of editing the Banks Iceland and North Atlantic papers

June (2)

The Series Editor’s View: or, what Hakluyt Society Series Editors do
Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2016: European Conceptualisations of Southeast Asian Sexual Diversity, c. 1590–1640

April (3)

Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820
2015 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize: 2016 results and 2015 winner
Recipients of 2016 Hakluyt Society Research Grants

2015 (9)

October (2)

Maritime Trade, Travel and Cultural Encounter in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Australia Circumnavigated: The Story of the HMS Investigator

September (1)

A Short Life of Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)

August (2)

Matthew Flinders and the Circumnavigation of Australia, 1801-1803
2015 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize runner-up Amy Bowles on “Sir Henry Mainwaring’s ‘A Brief Abstract’”

July (2)

2015 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize winner: “Printing the Pacific”
2015 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

May (1)

The Cabot Project

January (1)

Editing Hakluyt’s “The Principal Navigations”

2014 (6)

December (2)

Saluting Captain Matthew Flinders
Regional Guides to books published by the Hakluyt Society

November (1)

Rifling through the religious baggage of early modern travellers

October (3)

Hakluyt and Me: Using the Hakluyt Society Publications for my Doctoral Thesis
On Hakluyt Society business: Sarah Tyacke in California
Richard who? Introducing the Hakluyt Society

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